Styx's electrifying sound exploded at the NYCB Theater in Westbury (also known as Westbury Music Fair) on March 27, 2024, a stop on the road on its current tour.
Styx is much more than a rock and roll band. The seven members currently include Tommy Shaw, James “Jy” Young, Lawrence Gowan, Chuck Panozzo, Todd Sucherman, Will Evankovich and join them on this tour, Lawrence's younger brother, Terry, in Bass. Styx continues to reinvent and apparently rejuvenating with each band change.
Its brilliant harmonies and its excellent musicality combined with a catalog of successful songs that transcend the test of time is a stimulating concert experience. These are showmen and deliver big, leaving everything they have on the floor of the stage.
Joy is the main ingredient that keeps this band accelerated throughout the event of almost three hours and its audience feels quickly. They meet each song with cheers, often turning on their feet in standing ovations and dancing with family and infectious songs. The show of lights that accompanies it adds to the party changing from red to blue, yellow to vegetables and occasionally strobe lighting for additional dynamic effects.
The night was launched with riffs with a thunderous bass and explosive percussion in the classic and great illusion. That occurred in the powerful voices of Tommy Shaw and the chilling guitar riffs accompanied by the stimulating percussion of Todd Sucherman in too long in my hands. Later, Sucherman delivered a dazzling battery that also energized the crowd.
James “Jy” Young serves as the only continuous member of the band. It is vital for Styx's sound with its domain in Stratocaster and resonant voices.
The iconic NYCB theater in Westbury with its rotating circular stage is an intimate environment. This is a perfect place for the charismatic Lawrence Gowan, which seemed to be loving the space and taking full advantage of the same interacting with the audience, breaking in each part and never stopped until the final grade is reproduced.
Gowan's voices shot and were particularly seductive in the lady of Ballada Pop. Always the showman par excellence breaking all the walls with his audience, Gowan approaches and personally, taking the hands of the ladies in the front row and the serenade. In the middle of the show, Rocking In Paradise stopped for Gowan, who changed to a golden sequin jacket and wore a black hat that remembered Dickens' chimney sweep. It generated very fun throughout the night with its incredible energy combined with impressive pranks in its characteristic spinning piano. Gowan is so expert on the keyboard that he does not lose a rhythm even when he plays back.
At one point, Shaw recognized the appreciative crowd when commenting: “This is a dream come true for writers and musicians.” He took out his banjo and explained that he bought it during Covid, learned to play it and began writing songs with him, then presented his ballad, spend days. With the phrase days and we laugh and cry, we still have a wonderful life, one must be impressed that he wanted to send a stimulating message even when the world closed.
The festivities became even more spectacular in the first measure of Come Sail Away. The public was standing again and this time they created a state of mood by sustaining scintillating white lights against the black theater that sends a beautiful vision like the bugs of the rays dancing against a dark sky.
The set of two areas treated the crowd with the inspired Mr. Roboto surpassed with a euphoric renegade. Tommy Shaw presided over the voices, while James “Jy” Young groaned with his electric guitar.
All night was a constant roller coaster of moods that passed from the rhythms of explosion of Crash of the Crown to a more enthusiastic atmosphere as in being careful with the queen of the swords. The public was completely satisfied that they obtained all Styx songs that have come to know and some newer ones that are equally so good, if not so familiar.
Styx is touring during the summer, so put them for a night full of the best of rock and roll played by master musicians.
Author: Saxon
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